Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari has approved additional 12,000 metric tonnes of assorted food stuff for distribution to victims of flooding across the country.
The Director General, National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, Mustapha Ahmed announced this in Abuja, Nigeria at the commemoration of the 2022 International Day of Disaster Risk Reduction organised by the Agency.
Ahmed, said the Agency has commenced the onward distribution to various States as received from the National Strategic Reserve.
He assured Nigerians that the relief delivery will soon be completed to all other states by the weekend as efforts have been made to address challenges encountered in the movement of the items due to condition of the roads that were covered by flood.
Reviewing the on-going flood situation in the country, Ahmed acknowledged that NEMA and its partners were grappling with “the large scale flood disaster across the country in which more than 500 lives have been lost, several property destroyed and a large number of persons displaced in some of the disaster hotspots.”
Emmanuel Ukoh
